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4615 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20011, USA
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N38° 56' 50" W77° 1' 56"
(38.947222222222, -77.032222222222)
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The Capital Traction Company Car Barn, at 4615 14th St., NW. in Washington, D.C., was built in 1906. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Also known as the Decatur Street Car Barn and the Northern Bus Garage, it was built to serve the Capital Traction
Company.It is a two-story brick streetcar car barn designed by local architects Wood, Donn & Deming in Italian Renaissance
style.It is located at the end of the Fourteenth Street streetcar line. It included two turntables. It was built by construction contractors Richardson and Burgess in 1906 and was then 537 by 208 feet (164 m × 63 m) in
plan.It was converted to a bus garage in 1959; the Washington Rapid Transit had leased part of its space for use as a bus garage starting in 1926.
